US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION, UPMC on Feb. 17 for "Methods of detecting and treating cerebral aneurysms" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,904, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh) and UPMC (Pittsburgh).

"Methods of detecting and treating cerebral aneurysms" was invented by Robert Max Friedlander (Pittsburgh), Michael Maurice McDowell (Pittsburgh), Aditya M. Mittal (Pittsburgh), Ali A. Alattar (Pittsburgh) and Kamil W. Nowicki (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a whole blood, protein-based diagnostic test for presence and evaluation of aneurysm status. Further, the present disclosure relates to methods of treating aneurysms."

The patent was filed o...